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Long Island City County: Queens Vision for Downtown Downtown Revitalization Initiative Application Template Applications for the Downtown Revitalization Initiative will be received by the Regional Councils. Applicant responses for each section should be as complete and succinct as possible. Applications must be received by the New York City Regional Economic Development Council by 4:00 PM on June 14, 2017. Submit your application as a Word Document to [email protected]. BASIC INFORMATION Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) Region: New York City Municipality Name: New York City Downtown Name: Long Island City County: Queens Vision for Downtown. Provide a brief statement of the municipality’s vision for downtown revitalization. With both past and future New York State (NYS) assistance (including two grants to Long Island City Partnership for the Long Island City Comprehensive Plan Phases 1 and 2 and the Queens Tech Zone Study) it is conceivable that within the next five years Long Island City (LIC) will grow to become a 24-7, Live/Work/Play, mixed use and mixed income community. Job growth will expand from LIC’s own home grown innovation district and from supported advanced manufacturing companies like Boyce Technologies and Shapeways. LIC will also become a hub for a biotech and life sciences cluster that will provide a diversity of job opportunities for workers at different entry level positions. Long-time residents, that previously had difficulty landing a good paying job will particularly benefit from LIC’s expanding tech and bioscience cluster. Due to more modern and dynamic zoning, much of this development will occur as of right, but with State investment and support, all of these investments can be linked together to create an inclusive and connected LIC. Businesses investing in the LIC community will be able to recruit employees from LIC’s growing and diverse community. Further, over 20,000 new residents will have moved to LIC as a result of its current residential boom, and thanks to State programs, a number of these apartments will fall within the broad range of affordability. The trend of living and working in LIC will continue to grow and thrive. Thanks again to the State’s investment in creating a new wayfinding smart signage system for LIC, as well as support for local shops, new retail, open space, and placemaking, investments, LIC will become a destination community where innovation not only happens in the lab, but also at the local cafe, beer garden, and subway station. Our vision for LIC also includes improving connections over the Sunnyside rail yards as the district south of the yards is generating greater growth and pedestrian traffic who must transverse to the multiple transit lines to the north. With some innovative thinking a portion of these yards could be platformed over to build a modern bioscience smart campus and the much needed open space the growing community craves. 2017 DRI Application 1 | Page Justification. Provide an overview of the downtown, highlighting the area’s defining characteristics and the reasons for its selection. Explain why the downtown is ready for Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) investment, and how that investment would serve as a catalyst to bring about revitalization. Long Island City (LIC), known as the Fourth Central Business District of New York City, is an important economic center for the region with a diverse set of industries with good paying jobs. It is uniquely defined as a mixed-used district, given its recently expanded BID, large Industrial Business Zones, growing residential populations, and lively cultural institutions. We seek to maximize our burgeoning community’s assets to become a livable, mixed-use community with abundant connectivity among our residents and workers, to improve the quality of life for all, and to set up lasting means for community inclusion so that the pace and pressure of development in LIC leaves no one behind. Our proposal as a Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) seeks to build on both LICP’s Comprehensive Plan and other work previously funded in part by the Regional Economic Development Council. Selection as part of the State’s DRI initiative would propel LIC into one of the country’s top destination communities for businesses and their employees, as well as benefit those who currently reside and work in LIC. While LIC does not suffer from the traditional sense of blight and abandonment, it lacks investment in several key areas, where the State’s leadership could have a measurable impact. First, the State could assist in strengthening the mixed-use character of LIC. Without proper incentive programs, most of the investment in LIC to date has focussed on high-end residential and hotel developments. It would be a missed opportunity if LIC was to serve solely as a wealthy bedroom neighborhood ten minutes to Midtown Manhattan, with pockets of poverty. Existing and new residents need to be better integrated into a cohesive community so that the community’s growth is an opportunity for all. Second, the State could target LIC for much of its incentives toward fostering the life sciences and tech industries. LIC is located directly across from Manhattan’s medical/research and innovation institutions. It is well connected to the rest of the City, NY’s airports, and the region. It has relatively lower land-prices and a significant number of largely underdeveloped land. It is also home to LaGuardia Community College, with its 50,000+ students and two large public housing developments (Queensbridge, Ravenswood) which would greatly benefit from the middle class jobs a life sciences cluster generates. Many industry leaders are already interested in LIC and have toured the area. Yet financing this type of development requires a public component that has still not been clearly defined. Third, the State could continue to improve public transportation options. LIC is better connected than in the past, thanks to both the 2nd Avenue Subway and the recently launched East River Ferry service. Yet accessing the East Side of Manhattan still requires subway transfers and the ferry has yet to expand to New York Hospital, Weill Cornell and Rockefeller University as well as its planned connections to NYU/Alexandria and Roosevelt Island. Further some parts of LIC are poorly connected to others such as the development occurring southeast of the Sunnyside rail yards and the areas north of the Queensboro Bridge. 2017 DRI Application 2 | Page Finally, the State could continue its investments in making LIC a well-integrated mixed use, live-work-play neighborhood that these industries thrive in. LIC needs the public and private spaces where innovation and science discoveries take place outside the office as well as within. We need complete streets, neighborhood amenities, open space assets and the placemaking connections that knit a community together. As a downtown geographic designation, LIC has a core central district that is dense with commercial and industrial activity as well as new residential growth. Just north of the central district the area has established residential and industrial uses as well as a hospital that serves the LIC area. Major cultural institutions are located throughout. The boundary area includes zip codes 11101, 11120, 11109, and 11106. The area is serviced by major public transportation, including 13 MTA subway stations, 17 bus lines, the LIRR, NYC Ferry service, 4 bridges, 1 tunnel to Manhattan, access to main roads and major highways, and LaGuardia and JFK Airports. The area also includes the Long Island City Business Improvement District (BID) and the Long Island City Industrial Business Zone (IBZ). As such, the district is a compact, well-defined downtown community with definite boundaries, as shown in the attached map. The population of LIC as of 2015 is 69,3941 residents. The central district is experiencing consistent population growth with 30,582 residents, a growth of 19% since 2000. Jobs in the area increased by 19.3% from 2004 and 2014, and equal 85,1612 workers in diverse industries. However, as the district overall is experiencing new growth and development, there remains substantial pockets of poverty and disparity in income and educational attainment. Within the area, there two New York City Housing Authority developments: Ravenswood Houses and Queensbridge Houses North and South. The latter is the largest public housing development in the country. Just a bit further to the north is Astoria Houses. The census tracts which include the public housing developments report some of the highest levels of poverty, as well as the lowest levels of educational attainment compared to the overall area and the city as a whole. The DRI will knit together the separate areas of investments into a cohesive and broad-based economic opportunity area which will bridge the gaps remaining among less advantaged portions of the population and the local growth opportunities around them, simultaneously making it a more successful neighborhood for all. The DRI will better integrate the community for the future, through approaches such as those identified in Section 8 below. In order to capture the growth and to better connect the people in the area, more investment is needed to establish a full service, livable, 24/7 urban community. If we do not address this need, LIC and the region will risk losing future economic growth and opportunity, hurting the populations who need these the most. 1 Source: 2011-2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates 2 Source: U.S. Census Bureau, OnTheMap Application, 2014 2017 DRI Application 3 | Page DOWNTOWN IDENTIFICATION This section should be filled out with reference to the list of desired attributes for participation in the DRI as set forth in the DRI program description. 1) Boundaries of the Downtown Neighborhood. Detail the boundaries of the targeted neighborhood, keeping in mind that there is no minimum or maximum size, but that the neighborhood should be concentrated and well-defined.
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